To be clear, I’m only criticizing the Minnesota Reformer for running that headline in the first place, not you for copying it. You did nothing wrong; you were just following rule 4 as required.
For sure, I tend to be a bit sympathetic to journalists because they have a pretty thankless job and writing quickly about complex events filled with dishonest people pushing bullshit talking points is just always going to be a really hard thing to do really well consistently
But on the other hand what you’re saying is a totally fair criticism, and I’m glad to see it because you’re totally right about the importance of framing and how many bullshit things people in power do gets laundered by being written about in passive voice or as some kind of natural and inevitable outcome instead of as a conscious decision made by real people, and getting push back on it gives journalists at least some basis to change how they do things and say “I’m just responding to what my readers are telling me,” when people accuse them of being biased.
To be clear, I’m only criticizing the Minnesota Reformer for running that headline in the first place, not you for copying it. You did nothing wrong; you were just following rule 4 as required.
I just feel that how issues are framed is important, and refuse to accept the headline’s implication of legitimacy.
For sure, I tend to be a bit sympathetic to journalists because they have a pretty thankless job and writing quickly about complex events filled with dishonest people pushing bullshit talking points is just always going to be a really hard thing to do really well consistently
But on the other hand what you’re saying is a totally fair criticism, and I’m glad to see it because you’re totally right about the importance of framing and how many bullshit things people in power do gets laundered by being written about in passive voice or as some kind of natural and inevitable outcome instead of as a conscious decision made by real people, and getting push back on it gives journalists at least some basis to change how they do things and say “I’m just responding to what my readers are telling me,” when people accuse them of being biased.